wove

[ wohv ]
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verb
  1. a simple past tense and past participle of weave.

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How to use wove in a sentence

  • Street children wove among traffic like silver fish, risking their lives to sell chewing gum for a few afghanis.

    Back to Afghanistan | Magsie Hamilton-Little | October 6, 2011 | THE DAILY BEAST
  • The other was all that, plus a narcissistic pathological liar who easily wove fanciful, elaborate tales.

    Casey Anthony's Lies | Diane Dimond | May 29, 2011 | THE DAILY BEAST
  • The dwarfs leaped into the air and in a bound seized and cut the branches, out of which they deftly wove a basket chair.

    Honey-Bee | Anatole France
  • He who p. 2plunged into the holy river shall take to himself the house of him who wove the spell upon him.

    The Oldest Code of Laws in the World | Hammurabi, King of Babylon
  • Rakkan's fiddle wove in and out, a lovely accompaniment to voices that were untrained but made rich and alive by triumph.

    Security | Poul William Anderson
  • What fantasies she wove out of a rather limited imagination!

    My New Curate | P.A. Sheehan
  • He wove their fine gold into the dark web of his tempestuous passions.

    The Proud Prince | Justin Huntly McCarthy

British Dictionary definitions for wove

wove

/ (wəʊv) /


verb
  1. a past tense of weave

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